5:11 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

This is a screenshot of the Washoe County Sheriff's Office iPhone app that allows people to report graffiti.

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The Washoe County Sheriff's Office says it saved Washoe County and Reno taxpayers about $140,000 in graffiti clean-up costs in the last year by using inmate work crews.

It reminds people that if they see graffiti they can use the sheriff's office iPhone and iPad application to photograph it and report it.

For the fiscal year that ended June 30, inmate work crews were assigned to clean up 26,000 graffiti taggings at 883 places. That breaks down to 577 in the city of Reno boundaries and 306 in unincorporated Washoe County. The city of Sparks handles its own graffiti abatement, sheriff's spokesman ...